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Charles Taylor, president of Liberia from 1997 to 2003, is on trial for war crimes before a U.N.(The Week)(Brief article)
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Charles Taylor, president of Liberia from 1997 to 2003, is on trial for war crimes before a U.N. special court sitting in The Hague. Some of the testimony has been very gruesome. A certain Joseph "Zigzag" Marzah, for instance, who identified himself to the court as Taylor's chief of operations, testified that on Taylor's orders his unit killed and ate enemy soldiers. Asked by defense counsel how he prepared these vittles for the table, Mr. Marzah gave ...
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